Culture of specimen by kit at SKYLINE MADISON CAMPUS
3441 DICKERSON PIKE, NASHVILLE, TN · Tristarhealth · · NPI 1295780476
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Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
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Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$11.75 with BCBS vs $108.28 with Humana — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| BCBS | NetworkP | $11.75 | — |
| Wellpoint | MGMCD | $12.18 | — |
| Aetna | COMM | $21.52 | — |
| Aetna | NewBusiness | $21.52 | — |
| BCBS | TENNCARE | $24.52 | — |
| BCBS | COVERKIDS | $26.55 | — |
| HealthSpring | MCRPOS | $27.07 | — |
| HealthSpring | MCRPPO | $27.07 | — |
| Odyssey Healthcare | COMM | $27.07 | — |
| Devoted Health Plan | MCR | $27.07 | — |
| Humana | ChoicecareMGMCR | $27.07 | — |
| Alive Hospice | COMM | $27.07 | — |
| Sarah Cannon Research | COMM | $27.07 | — |
| HealthSpring | DualEligible | $27.07 | — |
| HealthSpring | MCRHMO | $27.07 | — |
| United | HeritageSelect | $27.07 | — |
| Bright Health | SmallGroup | $27.07 | — |
| Amerigroup | MGMCR | $27.07 | — |
| Bright Health | HIX | $27.07 | — |
| United | VACCN | $27.07 | — |
| United | AllPayerAppendix | $27.07 | — |
| United | CorePayer | $27.07 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRPPO | $27.34 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRSNP | $27.34 | — |
| Aetna | MGMCRHMO | $27.34 | — |
| United | MGMCR | $27.61 | — |
| Zing | MGMCR | $27.88 | — |
| WellCare | MCR | $27.88 | — |
| BCBS | MCR | $27.88 | — |
| Ambetter | Select | $28.15 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPPO | $28.42 | — |
| Evergreen HMO | MCR | $28.42 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPFFS | $28.42 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRHMO | $28.42 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRPOS | $28.42 | — |
| American Health Advantage | MCRSNP | $28.42 | — |
| Signature Advantage | MCR | $28.69 | — |
| Ambetter | CORE | $29.23 | — |
| ATRIO Golden Times | MCR | $29.78 | — |
| Bright Health | MCRNarrow | $31.13 | — |
| Prime Health | WORKERSCOMP | $38.98 | — |
| NovaNET | WORKERSCOMP | $39.79 | — |
| CorVel Corporation | WORKERSCOMP | $39.79 | — |
| Cigna | NewBusiness | $48.46 | — |
| BCBS | BlueCare | $48.87 | — |
| Cigna | OAP | $55.03 | — |
| Oscar | HIX | $81.21 | — |
| Humana | HumanaChoice | $108.28 | — |
| Humana | HumanaChoiceCare | $108.28 | — |
| Humana | NarrowExchangeNetwork | $108.28 | — |
| Humana | BroadNetwork | $108.28 | — |
Visitor-reported prices
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Culture of specimen by kit at other Tennessee hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown | Nashville | not published | $9.75 – $84.67 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas DeKalb | Smithville | not published | $6.04 – $84.67 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands | Sparta | not published | $6.04 – $84.67 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas River Park | McMinnville | not published | $6.04 – $84.67 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford | Murfreesboro | not published | $16.91 – $84.67 |
| Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman | Centerville | not published | $17.63 – $84.67 |
| CENTENNIAL MEDICAL CENTER AT ASHLAND CITY | Ashland City | not published | $11.75 – $81.21 |
| HENDERSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER | HENDERSONVILLE | not published | $11.75 – $81.21 |